They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.
I wonder how much of this erosion of Roman Catholic Church moral authority results from the collapse of geocentrism playing out. The Catholic Church took a bold stand for the geocentrism of the...
If the "I" (Intelligence) part of "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) holds true, then ever since late 2022 when ChatGPT triggered the current wave of public-facing AI LLM chatbots,...
Just a reminder: ever since I've been posting on DC, I have said many, many times that (any) religion is based on a fairy tale. So comparing religion to movies and cartoons, it's not...
Well, sadly I don't share your optimism about AI. Sure it will do away with trucking jobs and other similar jobs but it won't raise human intelligence. There's a saying going around,...
I asked Gemini for historical examples of long-standing, bitter conflicts between neighbors that eventually ended. Gemini suggested (1) the Troubles of Northern Ireland, (2) the three wars between...
Hard to believe that Spain was among the first and it has now been 20 years. Ireland was 10 years ago, still 5 years ahead of Northern Ireland. I was surprised to see that quite a few South...
Well, I've worked long enough with a wide variety of people to have encountered a fair number of not-very-bright individuals who could still take directions and learn stuff. Stupidity also...
Obviously in Palestine/Israel the dynamic has been different for decades, so there is a lot of momentum in the direction of not coexisting. But I can't imagine any logical reason...
After exchanging posts with Ignorant Amos and Ficino about movie fiction and religion, I asked ChatGPT to write something for me based on the idea that there is a very strong and clear parallel...
Fascinating! The line of transmission of "boss" was opposite to that which I had supposed! It's funny that in ancient Greek, αὐθέντης also means murderer in the sense of one who does...
Do you think that the "war of the wombs" idea exploited by Hamas et al. is qualitatively different from the practice of Israeli settlers' on the West Bank having large...
We might say that to a first approximation, only the scientific method creates value; and everything else, at best, might redistribute some of that value. There's a lot of value to...
According to ChatGPT, ""the word "efendi" originates from the Greek word αὐθέντης (authentēs), which originally meant master or one with authority. Over time, the word evolved...
Saying I like the movie music of Ennio Morricone would be a huge understatement. I have been whistling and humming the music of Sergio Leone's movies for the last 55 years. The music of...
Friends and I were amazed when parliament in Greece voted 176-76 to legalize same-sex marriage last year. Good for Mitsotakis, who is a conservative. Of course the Orthodox Church opposed it...
Do you like the movie music of Ennio Morricone? I am a big fan. Maybe you've seen Once Upon a Time in America. Like Good Bad Ugly, it was directed by Leone. But I'm sure you know that.